Word: discoing
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...listening to himself deejay or from the knowledge that this photo probably won't make him a huge hit with the ladies. The unlikely event occurred as Charles was touring a new south London youth shelter. Spotting a mixing deck and turntables, he said, "Oh, you've got a disco here." Soon the Prince of Wales was behind the wheels of steel, and with the aid of two rhythmic young urchins he set about mixing I Don't Smoke the Reefer by DJ Dee Kline and Little Man by the Lost Boys. The music was punctuated by such princely exclamations...
...loves the full-bodied bordeaux at PuJ's bar in Shanghai's glitziest hotel. She also loves the cigars, which are, she concedes, nothing but excessive phallic symbols to be smoked with high-roller abandon. But what Zhu likes best are the sexy, well-honed bodies out on the disco floor. "The pickings are best right here," Zhu says, exhaling puffs of Montecristo smoke. "Which one shall I take home tonight...
...Making Whoopee" on the piano; seasons changing as Hugh Grant walks down the Portobello Road to "Ain't No Sunshine" (Notting Hill); the bittersweet use of "Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head" in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and of "I Love the Nightlife" in Last Days of Disco; Abba songs punctuating Muriel's Wedding; that inimitable discussion of "Like a Virgin" in Reservoir Dogs; "No More Mr. Nice Guy" in the background as Wiley Wiggins gets paddled in Dazed and Confused; Faye Wong dancing to "California Dreaming" (Chungking Express); Tom Everett Scott hitting the drums too fast...
...social gadflies who dress black-on-black, talk irreverently all the way through award ceremonies and can't wait to party away all the easy money that accrues from selling low-royalty back catalog CDs to baby boomers replacing their vinyl collections of aural anarchy from the pre-disco era. That is an unfair characterization which covers only 99 percent of the industry...
...crowd are flying high on the current success of recent acts such as the Beatles (signed in 1962), who recently spent an unprecedented eight weeks atop the Billboard album charts with their "1" hits compilation. The famously moody art deco hotel had been transformed into a Moroccan disco on three levels, complete with incense, scattered cushions and the sort of ear-splitting techno music middle-aged record executives love to have people think they listen to all the time. The party bulged at the seams with hundreds of middle-aged men in black (many of them also bulging...